| everlasting | (noun) any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | Synonyms: everlasting flower |
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| everting | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: eversion, inversion |
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| everything | (noun) all things that are of importance to a person | - |
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| evildoing | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: transgression |
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| exclaiming | (noun) an abrupt excited utterance | Synonyms: exclamation |
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| excreting | (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, evacuation, excretion, voiding |
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| executing | (noun) putting a condemned person to death | Synonyms: capital punishment, death penalty, execution |
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| exercising | (noun) the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit | Synonyms: exercise, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout |
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| expelling | (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: discharge, emission |
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| expending | (noun) the act of spending money for goods or services | Synonyms: expenditure |
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| exporting | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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| expounding | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: exposition |
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| expunging | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: erasure, expunction |
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| extinguishing | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, quenching |
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| facing | (noun) providing something with a surface of a different material | Synonyms: lining |
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| (noun) a protective covering that protects the outside of a building | Synonyms: cladding |
| (noun) a lining applied to the edge of a garment for ornamentation or strengthening | - |
| (noun) an ornamental coating to a building | Synonyms: veneer |
| factoring | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factorisation, factorization |
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| fading | (noun) weakening in force or intensity | Synonyms: attenuation |
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| faggoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: fagoting |
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| fagoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: faggoting |
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| failing | (noun) failure to reach a minimum required performance | Synonyms: flunk |
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| (noun) a flaw or weak point | Synonyms: weakness |
| falsifying | (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: disproof, falsification, refutal, refutation |
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| faltering | (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, hesitation, waver |
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| fang | (noun) hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison | - |
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| (noun) canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey | - |
| (noun) an appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs | - |
| farming | (noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | Synonyms: agriculture, husbandry |
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| (noun) agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life | Synonyms: land |
| farrowing | (noun) the production of a litter of pigs | Synonyms: farrow |
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| farthing | (noun) a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny | - |
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| farting | (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, fart, flatus, wind |
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| fashioning | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: devising, making |
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| fastening | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: attachment |
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| (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fixing, holdfast |
| fasting | (noun) abstaining from food | Synonyms: fast |
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| faultfinding | (noun) persistent petty and unjustified criticism | Synonyms: carping |
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| faulting | (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, fracture, geological fault, shift |
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| feasting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: banqueting |
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| featherbedding | (noun) the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required | - |
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| feathering | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feather |
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| feeding | (noun) the act of consuming food | Synonyms: eating |
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| (noun) the act of supplying food and nourishment | Synonyms: alimentation |
| feeling | (noun) the experiencing of affective and emotional states | - |
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| (noun) an intuitive understanding of something | Synonyms: intuitive feeling |
| (noun) a physical sensation that you experience | - |
| (noun) the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin | Synonyms: tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch, touch sensation |
| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: belief, impression, notion, opinion |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone |
| feigning | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, pretence, pretense |
| fencing | (noun) the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules) | - |
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| (noun) a barrier that serves to enclose an area | Synonyms: fence |
| (noun) material for building fences | Synonyms: fencing material |
| fermenting | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, zymolysis, zymosis |
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| ferrying | (noun) transport by boat or aircraft | Synonyms: ferry |
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| festering | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: ichor, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: maturation, suppuration |
| fibbing | (noun) a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear | Synonyms: paltering |
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| fielding | (noun) (baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field | - |
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| fighting | (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fight, scrap |
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| figuring | (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, computation, reckoning |
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| filing | (noun) preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc. | - |
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| (noun) the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object) | - |
| (noun) the entering of a legal document into the public record | - |
| (noun) a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file | - |
| filling | (noun) the act of filling something | - |
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| (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: pick, weft, woof |
| (noun) (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth | - |
| (noun) a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc. | - |
| (noun) flow into something (as a container) | - |
| (noun) any material that fills a space or container | Synonyms: fill |
| filming | (noun) the act of making a film | Synonyms: cinematography, motion-picture photography |
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| financing | (noun) the act of financing | Synonyms: funding |
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| finding | (noun) the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation | Synonyms: determination |
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| (noun) the decision of a court on issues of fact or law | - |
| (noun) something that is found | - |
| fingering | (noun) touching something with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument | - |
| fingerling | (noun) a young or small fish | - |
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| fingerpointing | (noun) the imputation of blame | Synonyms: finger-pointing |
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| fingerprinting | (noun) the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification | - |
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| fingerspelling | (noun) an alphabet of manual signs | Synonyms: finger spelling |
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| finishing | (noun) the act of finishing | Synonyms: finish |
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| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: coating, finish |
| firing | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: ignition, inflammation, kindling, lighting |
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| (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
| (noun) the act of discharging a gun | Synonyms: discharge, firing off |
| (noun) the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy | Synonyms: fire |
| fishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: sportfishing |
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| (noun) the occupation of catching fish for a living | - |
| fitting | (noun) putting clothes on to see whether they fit | Synonyms: try-on, trying on |
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| (noun) a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system | - |
| (noun) (usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel) | Synonyms: appointment |
| (noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | Synonyms: accommodation, adjustment |
| fixing | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixture, mend, mending, repair, reparation |
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| (noun) the sterilization of an animal | Synonyms: altering, neutering |
| (noun) (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body | Synonyms: fixation |
| (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fastening, holdfast |
| flagging | (noun) a walk of flagstones | - |
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| (noun) flagstones collectively | - |
| flaming | (noun) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke | Synonyms: fire, flame |
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| flapping | (noun) the motion made by flapping up and down | Synonyms: flap, flutter, fluttering |
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| flashboarding | (noun) boarding place along the top of a dam to increase its height | Synonyms: flashboard |
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| flashing | (noun) sheet metal shaped and attached to a roof for strength and weatherproofing | - |
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| (noun) a short vivid experience | Synonyms: flash |
| flavoring | (noun) something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | Synonyms: flavorer, flavourer, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning |
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| flavouring | (noun) something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | Synonyms: flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, seasoner, seasoning |
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| fledgeling | (noun) young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying | Synonyms: fledgling |
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| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| fledgling | (noun) young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying | Synonyms: fledgeling |
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| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| fling | (noun) a brief indulgence of your impulses | Synonyms: spree |
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| (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, go, offer, pass, whirl |
| (noun) the act of flinging | - |
| flirting | (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, dalliance, flirt, flirtation, toying |
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| floating | (noun) the act of someone who floats on the water | Synonyms: natation |
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| flogging | (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flagellation, lashing, tanning, whipping |
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| flooding | (noun) a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them | Synonyms: implosion therapy |
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| flooring | (noun) the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure) | Synonyms: floor |
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| (noun) building material used in laying floors | - |
| flowering | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, inflorescence |
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| (noun) a developmental process | Synonyms: unfolding |
| flowing | (noun) the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) | Synonyms: flow |
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| fluting | (noun) a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column) | Synonyms: flute |
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| fluttering | (noun) the motion made by flapping up and down | Synonyms: flap, flapping, flutter |
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| flying | (noun) an instance of traveling by air | Synonyms: flight |
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| focusing | (noun) the act of bringing into focus | Synonyms: focalisation, focalization |
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| (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, direction, focal point, focus, focussing |
| focussing | (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, direction, focal point, focus, focusing |
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| foiling | (noun) an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts | Synonyms: frustration, thwarting |
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| folding | (noun) the act of folding | Synonyms: fold |
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| (noun) the process whereby a protein molecule assumes its intricate three-dimensional shape | Synonyms: protein folding |
| (noun) a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock | Synonyms: fold |
| folksong | (noun) a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture | Synonyms: folk ballad, folk song |
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| following | (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, pursual, pursuit |
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| (noun) a group of followers or enthusiasts | Synonyms: followers |
| fondling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| footing | (noun) a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing | Synonyms: foothold |
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| (noun) a relation that provides the foundation for something | Synonyms: basis, ground |
| (noun) status with respect to the relations between people or groups | Synonyms: terms |
| foraging | (noun) the act of searching for food and provisions | Synonyms: forage |
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| forbidding | (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbiddance |
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| fording | (noun) the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse | Synonyms: ford |
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| foreboding | (noun) an unfavorable omen | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, premonition, presentiment |
| forecasting | (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: foretelling, prediction, prognostication |
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| foregrounding | (noun) the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system | Synonyms: foreground processing |
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| foreshadowing | (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, prefiguration |
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| forestalling | (noun) the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | Synonyms: obviation, preclusion |
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| foretelling | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, prediction, prognostication |
| forewarning | (noun) an early warning about a future event | Synonyms: premonition |
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| forewing | (noun) either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings | Synonyms: fore-wing, fore wing |
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